The bozos at ailing IT firm Sun Microsystems have done a bad job on servers yet again while rivals HP, IBM and Dell turned in a decent performance.

In the first quarter of 2008, Sun’s server market share by revenue fell by 1.8% even as the worldwide server market grew 3.5% to $13 billion, according to market researcher IDC.

This marks the second consecutive quarter of revenue share decline in servers for Sun, according to the IDC numbers.

IDC estimated that over two million servers were shipped for the second consecutive quarter and a unit shipment growth of 7.8% year over year in 1Q08.

In contrast to Sun’s poor showing, its rivals HP, IBM and Dell increased Continue Reading…